Write Quotes

I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.

It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

If you can write DNA, you're no longer limited to 'what is' but to what you could make.

I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.

It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.

But I love to entertain. My vocation is to accrue all these experiences, to write about them, to get them out of my system, to not get sick, and then to share them publicly.

We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to us.

May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.

I have learned not to read reviews. Period. And I hate reviewers. All of them, or at least all but two or three. Life is much simpler ignoring reviews and the nasty people who write them. Critics should find meaningful work.

When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.

Drama school is fundamentally practical. I didn't write any essays, so I came out with a BA honors degree in acting.

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!

I'm a reporter; you can't subpoena people to talk to you. If you write to them and try to call them on the phone and they don't answer or so forth, then take them unawares.

You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.

I want to write songs and play them for people - live.

I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.

I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue.

I was very against pink and purple when I was young, because they were girls' colors. But that was only because I didn't want people to write me off for what I can do. When I got into my 20s, I decided that was stupid.

Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen.

Write whatever you like!

When I was a little boy in short pants, I dreamed about a miraculous ointment that would make me invisible. Then I became an adult, began to write, and wanted to be successful. Now I'm successful and would like to have the ointment that would make me invisible.

So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to.

I do want to write about Jane Whitefield again, but only when I have a good enough idea - something I've figured out about her that's news and that's worth a reader's time.

Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own screenplays.

Absolutely. I can produce. I can write. I can direct.

I'm lucky; people write scripts for me.

I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them.

I write about my region, the countryside in which I grew up.

He took me from not being able to write a word in terms of writing screenplays to being the king of wooden dialogue.

All of us write wish fulfillment.